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"Mr President, Mr Ortega is obviously aware that, on the initiative of the Seville European Council, the Commission presented a report based on a global approach to the special characteristics of the situation of the outermost regions aimed at determining the measures to be implemented to promote their development, taking into account their specific needs.
More recently, in September 2007, the Commission presented to the Council and the European Parliament the results of this strategy and prospects for the future. In addition, as the honourable Member knows, the Green Paper on ‘Future relations between the EU and the Overseas Countries and Territories’ has just been published. The Commission has thus just launched a broad public consultation, which will pave the way for a new policy of partnership with the overseas countries and territories.
These territories have many things in common with the outermost regions, as you know: remoteness, isolation from EU territories, vulnerability, including to climate change, and of course all of the issues relating to transport, both air and sea, management of migratory flows, agricultural policy and maritime policy. All of these points are common to both the overseas territories and the outermost regions.
Given the situation in the world today, what we realised was that, in order to succeed, a coherent development policy needed to be part of a wider regional framework; hence the ‘wider neighbourhood’ action plan that was launched by the 2004 strategy in Seville, which seeks to strengthen the regional integration of the outermost regions in their geographical position, in other words with certain ACP African and Caribbean countries.
This perspective, this regional dimension, is also taken into account in the economic partnership agreements negotiated between the European Union and the ACP states with a view to ensuring greater regional integration of these countries.
We have a number of different instruments for that purpose, with which you are undoubtedly familiar. First and foremost, the financial instruments need to be better coordinated, be it the 10
EDF, the ERDF or funds subject to cofinancing. We must strengthen the current maritime links between the outermost regions and their non-EU neighbours. It is also important to participate in Community research networks between these outermost regions, the overseas countries and territories and their neighbours so that they can participate in Community programmes. Finally, we need to adopt new guidelines in the area of migration, especially within the framework of the cooperation between the ACP states and the European Union.
As the honourable Member Mr Ortega said, the implementation of the strategy for the outermost regions, whose objectives will also be taken into account in the review of the Regulation on the programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity, is part of the Council’s work programme for the French, Czech and Swedish Presidencies.
As you know, the French Presidency has a special interest in these issues: as proof of this, an important meeting on the island of Réunion, which began yesterday and will end on 11July, is focusing on the strategies that need to be put in place to combat climate change and the loss of biodiversity in these outermost regions and overseas countries and territories. We hope that that meeting, too, will manage to give fresh impetus to this policy, on which we place the utmost importance."@en1
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